Dumb videogame comic ideas...

So, since (aka Matt) is on a visit again, I've been playing around on his copy of Skyrim.  (My own file, along with his various Dovakin).  My character is a female Khajit named, predictably, "Shadsie" (although, after seeing some of the Khajit NPC names, my personal headcanon for her has her named "Shad'seh" or something to that effect, but she uses a pronunciation that she thinks is easier for the local Nords to handle).  

I finally adopted my first kid today... hooray!  I took in the beggar-girl, Lucia, of Whiterun into my newly-acquired Whiterun house.  Matt and I were making comments about the hypotheticals of raising a child in the dangerous land of Skyrim - how I have weapons on my walls and stuff.  We started talking about how I have the Wabajack in a weapons-rack, just blatantly there in the home that I leave my child in for hours on end when I go hunting. (For those of you who haven't played Skyrim, it's a magic staff with random-effects that I got from doing a small quest for the Daedric Lord of Madness.  The Daedra are these demi-god / devil entities that like screwing around with mortals and the Wabajack weapon does weird stuff.  When I've used it, the result is usually an electric spell or turning a goat into goo.  Matt says that it does carry the possibility of turning something randomly into a dragon).

So, we were talking about this and how children you adopt sometimes take in a pet - this turned into the idea of "What if my little girl gets a pet rabbit... and then decides to play around with the Wabajack that Mama TOLD HER NOT TO TOUCH and, suddenly, Whiterun is subject to a HOPPING DRAGON?!"    

(Sadly, no, that will not happen in the game) - However, I am thinking of making some kind of silly one-off joke panel comic about that. 

We also talked about how sad it is that one cannot bring home a dragon's skull after one has slain a dragon.  One can pick up dragon bone for selling and crafting purposes (I'm nowhere remotely near being able to make Bonemold Armor yet), but it's never the skull... We talked about how if I'd actually lived in Skyrim, I'd be trying to take home a dragon skull as a home-decoration.  After putting the game away for the night, I got this image in my mind of my character lugging home the skull of a dragon she's just slain with the stamina-meter groaning / that annoying "You are encumbered and cannot run" message in the corner.  She gets home to a puzzled Lucia and says "This is what your Mama does for a living, Pumpkin."  Cue the exhausted Dragonborn / Dovakin collapsing with a "Splort!"  and "Mama?"    

I bet if I keep up gaming and getting ideas, I could eventually do a whole series of little "Lucia and Mom-Cat" comics.   (For a game that came out in 2011 that I am seriously late to the fandom for).